Equinox-3D

3D modeler with a fast, fully integrated ray-tracer. Some of the main features and strengths are:

Super-fast renderer, the first fully integrated interactive ray-tracer in a modeler! - Clean, easy to use and fast user-interface (UI). EQUINOX-3D is often called "the free modeler with by far the best UI". - Very fast and memory-efficient design. For example: thanks to some design decisions and development techniques, EQUINOX-3D starts up in ~1 second with about 75 plugins loaded - Plugin-manager: allows you to change, re-compile and reload plugins without restarting EQUINOX-3D. - Multiple Geometries allowed on transform nodes (much fewer nodes needed to group things, resulting in cleaner/more efficient hierarchies). - True texture and material sharing: unlike in most other 3D packages, texture-mapping is stored on the geometries, not with the texture (no need for 'cloning' textured materials and keeping them in sync manually just